• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    YaYa’s Flam Broiled Chicken. It’s not good. There’s never anybody in the parking lot. But you’re telling me they could move to a bigger location? One that’s a converted bank?? Banks have vaults. For all the laundered money.

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    8 days ago

    It’s either “Just Socks” the store that sells mostly socks but also some other stuff and is always empty or the vacuum repair shop that hasn’t had a single car in the parking lot for the past twenty years

  • Gerowen@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Nah they make good steak and shrimp and they don’t bother me so Ima leave them alone. There are much bigger criminals to worry about in this country than shady local businesses.

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    16 days ago

    Every mattress store you’ve ever seen is likely a front for some shady shit.

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    16 days ago

    It’s way more than one shop. Meh, shop there anyway if you like anything they sell. Chances are your government is blowing ridiculous money on bullshit anyway. Pay cash too when you can. And do everything you can to resist digital spending tracking.

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    16 days ago

    One of our customers operates out of two leased “office” trailers next to an old pole barn in the middle of a corn field.

    From there, they “operate” 17 different companies, all demanding separate billing from us.

    There’s no WAY it’s legit. They have more “official” registered companies than they have office employees.

    Edited because mobile sucks

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      Could it be a landlord situation? It’s pretty cheap to open an LLC. Sometimes landlords will open many of them, an LLC for every rental property they own. It protects them from liability. If something goes really wrong and a tenant sues them for big $$$, the most they risk losing is the single rental house the tenant is renting.

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        Ironically that’s one of the things they don’t claim to be involved in.

        To list some of the things they claim to do
        Construction
        Hydro excavating
        “Tribal Economic Development”
        Native American health insurance
        “Health” supplements (think: “vitality” pills)
        Renewable Energy projects
        Manufacturing
        Finance
        Industrial development (though never actually heard of a won bid)
        (all of these entities are “owned” by a Native American- which I’ve alwas suspected is for tax benefit purposes)

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          eh. you know what? let em.

          The feds (and white men) have fucked them around for 400 years. Let 'em grift everything they can.

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    In 1991 two small businesses were busted for being fronts for illegal gambling parlors. 30 Cleveland cops were part of the bust. I lived next to both of them at one time. One was a t-shirt printing shop, I forget what the other was. A year later I moved into a neighborhood that had a pizza shop with a very nice sign, no windows and never seemed to be open. It was not uncommon to see a patrol car parked in front

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    16 days ago

    There are three recently opened smoke and vape shops in my village that are 100% money laundering schemes, they all sell American sweets as well for some reason

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    16 days ago

    Local drive-thru chicken joint took a noticeable dive in quality over the course of about 2 years while I was growing up, then it was on the news that a bunch of people got busted selling crack out of the place.

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      We had a KFC that got shut down about 20 years ago for selling drugs out of the drive-thru. Good riddance imo, I’ve never in my life had good food from a KFC.

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    I grew up near a place called the “McGuffin Lumber Company.” It was just a tiny storefront business, and I never saw anyone go in. And, of course, “MacGuffin” is a Hollywood term for an arbitrary thing that motivates the plot of a movie, like the Maltese Falcon in that film. So it was a running gag in my family that it must be a front.

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    There used to be a coffee shop in my town. Every day they had a two-part secret phrase that would let you get drugs, but it sounded like an order. I think I activated it one time. “Can I please get a double-double with whip cream?” “Sure. How’s your dog Mittens?” “I have no dog?!” Later, the coffee shop shut down because they got caught drug trafficking. They would double cup the coffee orders that had the drugs, and put the drugs in between the paper cups.

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    My town had an extremely generically named “spa” that I passed by all the time and joked that it must be a drug ring and I found out that no actually they were a human trafficking ring and they got shut down by the police.